Gloria

Jehst - City of Industry

It is well known that on this day a million years ago Jesus came out of his hiding-place after three days, bearing eggs for all his apostles to console them, even though he was the clear winner. It is this act of humble egg-gifting which we remember today in the traditional gorgings. It does us good to remember, how Peter, who preferred rock, disagreed with Thomas that the large egg would also contain the fondant filling like the small eggs, and bet thirty pieces of silver on the matter. From this we learn piety, and also how much better off we are that we have lower denominations of coinage with which to back up wild claims in bets. And so let us pause for a moment, as we let the chocolate seep into our bloodstreams, and think back to those early days when the eggs were made of wood, which children would have to carve and paint themselves all through lent so that their parents could present them to the Lord of the Manor in exchange for another year's use of the land and maybe a little mead.